Making my FC3 box a Dual Boot by adding HD, and installing wXP.

AaronW · 12-12-2004, 05:40 PM

I installed FC3 a while ago, and I'm really happy with it, but I miss things from windows, such as games, and the ability to use my CD-RW..

Anyway, I bought an 80g hard drive today, and I'm attempting to install Windows XP Pro on it. I've already checked through fdisk to see if it's detecting it, and /dev/hdb is there.

My problem is, when I try to boot from the Win install CD, it says something about configuring my hardware, then the screen goes blank and stays there. I'm not sure what other information you need, so there you go.. Any help is appreciated.

jaz · 12-12-2004, 08:53 PM

I have XP on the master harddrive and FC2 on the slave. I use Grub as the bootloader. I dont know about your scenario though...is XP going to be installed on the slave? have you formatted the drive?

AaronW · 12-12-2004, 09:00 PM

Yes, it will be slave. I've already set the (brand new, out of the box) hard drive as channel select, and my current is already master. I want XP to be the slave. Do I need to preformat it? I remember the Win CD doing that itself in the past..

jaz · 12-12-2004, 09:16 PM

well...how far is it getting into the installation? I got an error screen yesterday during the beginning of an install for a friends PC and realized that I didnt format the drive at all. I got a stop error but your situation seems totally different.

AaronW · 12-12-2004, 09:49 PM

Yeah, it does.. It doesn't get far at all. It gets to the 'configuring hardware' message, that comes up before anything else, then it just goes black.. It doesn't attempt to install at all..

AaronW · 12-13-2004, 05:52 PM

Err, I'm not getting much help at all, does anyone have ANY idea at all what I might want to try?

detpenguin · 12-13-2004, 10:33 PM

as a rule, windows (xp, 98se, 2000, etc) is a selfish little brat and likes to be on the first harddrive...i think your best bet, unfortunately, is to install xp on your master and reinstall linux on the slave...my setups have always worked, as long as i had windows installed first.
prolly not what you wanna hear, but thats how it works for me...

AaronW · 12-13-2004, 10:38 PM

That's fine.. Could I just set my linux drive to cabel select, and set the new one as master? Or would that be far to complicated for anything?

Ultimately, it doesn't know where I'm going to put it just yet. I put the CD in, it says Inspecting Hardware, or some message along those lines, then it goes black. It doesn't even begin installing. If I pull the new hard drive's wire out, maybe it'll work? I'll try that..

Still need help, if you think you might know, I'm listening..